Disability Justice: Neurodiversity Reading List

Understanding Neurodiversity (Jay Pierce, TEDxYouthxSeattle) (11:43)

Jay Pierce is a sixteen-year-old student in Running Start at Bellevue College. He grew up in Seattle and has always had a passion for psychology and biology. Jay is autistic and has done a lot of research on autism. He has also been a presenter at the UW Health Conference to discuss synesthesia and a possible link to transgender people. He has a very personal and exciting perspective to share with the audience of TEDxYouth Seattle. He enjoys playing video games in his free time and was inspired to do this talk when he was talking to a colleague about neurodiversity.

• Academic Ableism : Disability and Higher Education by Jay Dolmage
• Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
• Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words by Maxfield Sparrow
• All the Weight of our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by Lydia X Z Brown, E. Ashkenazy, Morenike Giwa Onaiwu
• We’re All Neurodiverse by Sonny Jane Wise  
• Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition By Liat Ben- Moshe
• Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson
• How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe
• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology organized by Bex Ollerton
• The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, by Maureen Dunne
• Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Thomas Fields-Meyer